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ˈredshire, -share, a. Metall. ? Obs. [ad. Sw. rödskör: see red-short a., and cf. red-sear; also the forms cold-share, -shire under cold-short. In first quot. associated with share n.] Red-short.1665 D. Dudley Mettalum Martis (1854) 30 The Iron thereof made is very Redshare, which is that if a workma...
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red-short
ˈred-short, a. Metall. [ad. Sw. rödskört (sc. jern iron) neut. of rödskör, f. röd red + skör brittle: cf. cold-short and see redshire, -share a.] Of iron: Brittle while in a red-hot condition, owing to excess of sulphur in the metal. Cf. hot-short.1730, 1773 [see cold-short]. 1795 Pearson in Phil. T...
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cold-short
ˈcold-short, a. Forms: 7 colsar, col-, cole-shire, -shore, coldshare, -shore, 7–8 -shire, (8 coal short, 9 cold-shear), 8– cold-short. [This, and the parallel red-short (also, in later use, hot-short), point by their early forms to adoption c 1600 from Scandinavian, and prob. from Swedish, metallurg...
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yellow
▪ I. yellow, a. and n. (ˈjɛləʊ) Forms: α. 1 ᵹelu, -o, ᵹeolu, ᵹeolo, ᵹiolu, ᵹeolw-, -uw-, -ew-, 2 ȝeoluw, ȝeolew, ȝeluw, 3 ȝeolu(h, ȝeleu, 4 ȝelew(e, ȝelugh(e, ȝelogh, ȝelowȝ, ȝelȝ, ȝelw, (ȝealwe), 4–5 ȝelwe, yelwe, ȝelou, ȝelow(e, 5 yelu, (ȝelwh(e, ȝelhew(e), 5–6 ȝellow, yelow(e, (6 ȝello, yelloo, y...
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